The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-22
WHAT CONSTITUTES PUBLICITY
What the Interstate Comm cree Com
mission Says on the Subject.

What the Interstate Comm cree Com
mission Says on the Subject.
W AsHINGToN, June 21-At the meeting
of the Interstate Commerce Commission
this morning the subject of the publication
of the joint tariff being under considera-
ton, the following preamble and order were
unanimously adopted and directed to be
sent to all railroad companies, subject to the
'Act to regulate commerce.
WHEREAS, Section of the Act to regu-
late commerce, authorizes the commission to
direct when joint tariffs shall be made pub
lie, and to prescribe the measure of pub
Lefty to be given to the same, it is ordered
as follows: Joint tariffs of rates, fares or
charges, established by two or more COM
mon carriers for transportation of passen-
gersor, freight passing over the continuous
lines or routes, copies of which
are required by the sixth section of the act
to regulate commerce to be filed with the
commission, shall be made public so far as
the same relate to business between points
which are connected by the lines of any sin
gle common carrier required by the first
paragraph of said section, to make public
the schedules of its rates. The fares and
charges of such joint tariffs shall be so-pub-
lished by
PLAINLY PRINTING
the same in large type, of at least the size of
ordinary plea, copies of which shall be kept
for the use of the public in such places and
in such form that they can be conveniently
inspected at every depot or station upon the
line of the carriers uniting in such Joint
tariff, and where the business is transacted
in competition with the business of carrier
whose schedules are required by law to be
made public as aforesaid"
A CAR CoMPANY's COMPLAINT.
Twenty-Five or thirty attorneys were as
sembled this morning in the small room in
which the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion holds its public sittings, when the chair
man announced that the Commission was
ready to hear the arguments in the case of
the Burton Stock Car Company against
several railroad companies The respond
ents are the Chicago Burlington and Quin-
cy, the Chicago, Rockland and Pacific, and
the Chicago and Alton, the Union Pacific
and the Missouri Pacific the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern, the Cleveland. Columbus
Cincinnati and Indianapolis, and Chicago,
Burlington and Northern, and the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul. The complain
ants were represented by Gen. Benjamin f.
Butler and Charles r. Barbour. The attor-
neys for the complainants first addressed the
Commissioner. Mr.. Barbour read the com
plant in full Its burden is that the com
panies charge the shippers an excess of 1873
per cent: LOT the privilege OF shipping cattle
in the Burton cars Their PRAYER is that
the companies be restrained from such dis
elimination and over-charge The Burton
Company claimed the right TO present to
the roads their cars for transportation
at the same rates as We're charged to ship
pers in the ordinary cars and so Iauch they
believed would be their right at common
law. They come before the commission
with no claim for damages, but simply ask
it.srf hat tln l,.. l..
roads to receive and haul the Burton car,
when they were in a suitable condition as to
strength of movement, at the ordinary
rates.